When free-living bacteria colonize biotic or abiotic surfaces, the resultant changes in physiology and morphology have important consequences on their growth, development, and survival. Surface motility, biofilm formation, fruiting body development, and host invasion are some of the manifestations of functional responses to surface colonization. Bacteria may sense the growth surface either directly through physical contact or indirectly by sensing the proximity of fellow bacteria. Extracellular signals that elicit new gene expression include autoinducers, amino acids, peptides, proteins, and carbohydrates. This review focuses mainly on surface motility and makes comparisons to features shared by other surface phenomenon.

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表面上的细菌运动：实现共同目标的多种方法。

当自由生存的细菌在生物或非生物表面上定殖时，生理和形态上所产生的变化对其生长，发育和存活产生重要影响。表面运动，生物膜形成，子实体发育和寄主入侵是对表面定殖的功能反应的一些表现。细菌可以直接通过物理接触或通过感应其他细菌的距离间接感应生长表面。引起新基因表达的细胞外信号包括自体诱导剂，氨基酸，肽，蛋白质和碳水化合物。这篇综述主要集中在表面运动性上，并对其他表面现象共有的特征进行了比较。